All 9 Uses of
parliament
in
David Copperfield
- I remember a certain luscious roll he gave to such phrases as 'The people's representatives in Parliament assembled,'†
Chpt 10-12 *
- Upon my life, "the whole social system" (as the men call it when they make speeches in Parliament) is a system of Prince's nails!' said this least of women, trying to fold her short arms, and nodding her large head.†
Chpt 22-24
- It's a little out-of-the-way place, where they administer what is called ecclesiastical law, and play all kinds of tricks with obsolete old monsters of acts of Parliament, which three-fourths of the world know nothing about, and the other fourth supposes to have been dug up, in a fossil state, in the days of the Edwards.†
Chpt 22-24
- The first subject on which I had to consult Traddles was this, — I had heard that many men distinguished in various pursuits had begun life by reporting the debates in Parliament.†
Chpt 34-36
- Very grateful for this friendly aid, I accepted the proposal; and night after night, almost every night, for a long time, we had a sort of Private Parliament in Buckingham Street, after I came home from the Doctor's.†
Chpt 37-39
- I should like to see such a Parliament anywhere else!†
Chpt 37-39
- I am in high repute for my accomplishment in all pertaining to the art, and am joined with eleven others in reporting the debates in Parliament for a Morning Newspaper.†
Chpt 43-45
- ' He read this passage as if it were from an Act of Parliament; and appeared majestically refreshed by the sound of the words.†
Chpt 52-54
- 'With respect to the pecuniary assistance enabling us to launch our frail canoe on the ocean of enterprise, I have reconsidered that important business-point; and would beg to propose my notes of hand — drawn, it is needless to stipulate, on stamps of the amounts respectively required by the various Acts of Parliament applying to such securities — at eighteen, twenty-four, and thirty months.†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(parliament with a lowercase "p") a legislative assembly in certain countries (that can pass laws)